Okay, I want you to sit back, close your eyes, and just listen.

Now, imagine it's a hundred years ago, and what it must have felt like the very first time you,

your family, your neighbors, heard a famous voice or a stranger's voice coming out of a

wooden box in your home, a radio. Telephones were still new, TVs didn't exist., for music you either went to a concert or you had to make it

yourself. Suddenly all of that was at your fingertips. I'm Patty Steele. How that whisper in the

dark changed our world forever. That's next on the

backstory.

Hey, this is Reed Isble.

And Day, this is Reed Isble. Otherwise known as The Brothers Hunt.

We're hosting a new podcast.

God's Country by Meat Eater and On Heart Podcast.

God's Country is a weekly drive to the intersection of music and the outdoors.

Two things that go together like Sunday and some pond fishing.

Or cows and green pastures.

We're talking to the riders behind your favorite songs about the deer they've loved and they've lost.

So I shot an 11 point with a 23 inch inside spread

like it was a giant.

And somebody stole it.

And the stories behind their biggest hits. Boy, they hooked that, man.

They really hooked that.

That's right in 101.

And hearing from today's biggest stars, like our friend Michael, Hard Rock Hardy.

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